| ioi said: (...) |
OK, thanks for answering.
I still find it strange how volatile certain games were with very little new votes, even before the first reports of out of bounds votes surfaced (once the scores got above 10). So, I assumed this issue was older than those first reports. But if you're sure no out of bounds votes had been registred by then, I guess I'll have no choice but believe you, as you alone own all the data.
About fanboy votes, the problem is that we're always working on a bounded scale (hopefully), so it's much easier for a small number disagreeing fanboys to push a good game down (or a bad game up) than it is for others (honest and otherwise) to compensate. That's why the plain average doesn't work so well - the distribution is never symmetric. Also games with fewer votes are always less statistically significant. Thus some of the suggestions a few members made.
You seem to have changed your methods, and though you've kept them under wraps, it definitly seems to be working better now, which is what matters. After all, IMDB doesn't publicize it's methods either (though we kinda know what those are anyway).
